o Revamp the schedule for more PD.
o Eliminate one duty a month.
o Send the kids home early one day each week and give us the time to try, collaborate.
o To overcome time barrier: Once a month 1.5 hour period during day where tech training can occur.
o Change the length of the class period.
o Reverse school schedule to include time for all faculty and students.
o Schedule – change it!
o Complete overhaul of scheduling.
o New schedule planning.
o Block scheduling.
o Longer class time/periods.
o Reconsider schedule so school day is learning time for all!
o Shift in the structure of school – yearlong?
o Time – change the schedule so there is more time for teacher collaboration/experimentation.
o A monthly, all-school professional learning time during the school day.
o More planning time scheduled during week for Web 2.0.
o Drop number of units in curriculum to allow for enhanced (digital) learning time.
o Revise schedule to allow time for developing new lessons.
o Four days teaching, one day learning.
o After school “clubs” for student technology.
o Build in time within school day to collaborate.
o Make time for education and planning (in the school day).
o Planning periods for teacher groups.
o Instead of formal in-service presentations. Give faculty time to explore the ways to use tools in classrooms.
o Overcoming issue of time – administrators allow time for professional development.
o Built in planning/collaborative time for projects.
o Give teachers time to play.
o Help teachers keep balance.
o Having the time to create faculty collaboration during the day.
o Build in time for teachers to learn: change schedule, add a period.
o Teacher freedom. Networked transportation.
o One school had talked about built-in planning time during the week to plan – integrated units.
o Give teachers time during the school day to work on tech tools.
o Extra math class time.
o More prep time devoted to learning and playing in tools.
o Schedule meeting/planning/teacher-learning time into each week.
o Time to play with the Web 2.0 is a major issue. Give the teachers “recess” so they can “play.” Computer lab is the playground. PLP members on “recess duty.” Admin takes over actual lunch and recess duty during this time.
o Expand teachers’ idea of work hours (it’s more than just 8:30-3)
o Need to take things off people’s plates that are outdated.
o Online conferences.
o Provide teacher collaboration time on a regular basis.
o Paid planning time regularly scheduled to support importance of these ideas.
o Teach “virtually” so teachers could be in two places at one time.
o Individuals can pick a person to share tool idea with.
o More Ning less e-mail – use Web 2.0 tools to cut down on meetings – voice thread, Ning, wikis.
o Online faculty meetings.
o Ask faculty/partners to work together to find mutually beneficial time to work toward a goal.
o Find a topic you would like to make more interactive and go out and explore technology – make technology work for you.
o School communication guidelines for parents and faculty with the goal of limiting email traffic.
o Blend PLP goals and tools and understanding into the other agendas of the school.
o One half-day a month for class, other half for PD.
o Half day every month for professional development school wide.
o Shorten the school day.
o A half-day at the Apple store.
o Extend the school day until 3:50 p.m. to add necessary time for classroom instruction/collaboration.
o Extend school day.
o Say that teachers stay one hour after school twice a week to help each other learn and plan Web 2.0 lessons.
o Add two more half-day in-services for tech training.
o Extend school year without changing curriculum requirements to allow time for faculty to explore topics with technology.
o Have a summer retreat for teachers to teach tools and play with technology.
o Start small – baby steps are better than standing still.
o Provide in-service time over the summer.
o Build a particle accelerator and zap myself so I become Dr. Manhattan and can be everywhere at once.
o Add the 25th hour to the day – they said, “think Disney world.”
o 36-hour day.
o Have a two-week retreat where people actually did work to redesign curriculum.
o Showing that technology has a small time start-up cost, but inevitably saves time.
Professional Dev. – 72 dots
o To have staff that has a tool that they are comfortable using present to others rather than same people.
o Those who are computer savvy can partner with those who are not to incorporate technology into existing lesson plans.
o Meet once a week with others to talk about learning.
o Scavenger hunt using tools.
o Mentor group.
o Showing faculty how to “replace” a curricular item.
o Create an online learning environment to share.
o Conduct a faculty technology fair.
o Video camera in room for day – then give teacher time to view it critically.
o Get teachers in each other’s classrooms more often.
o Technology retreats for faculty in luxurious destinations.
o Encourage PLP recruits to go to BLC ’09.
o Vacation with colleagues.
o Job swap.
o Faculty swap.
o Send faculty to far away places.
o Observations at other schools – learn from other teachers face to face – find out what works and what doesn’t – work around that mistake.
o Professional development.
o Take faculty to the challenge course.
o Required in-service/PD opportunities.
o Professional development workshops.
o Top priority for workshops and in-service.
o Ask teachers to suggest/design faculty development.
o Requiring teachers to go to content-specific workshops (upper school).
o Stipend faculty and presenters for a week of summer in-service for faculty/staff (not sure about including staff).
o Learning to draw using the right side of the brain as a faculty.
o Creativity workshops (that demonstrate teach tools, too – sneaking tech in!).
o Invest heavily in professional development. This doesn’t have to take new money – reallocate.
o Virtual field trips to see examples of elementary level use of tools.
o Summer workshops (paid).
o Professional development meeting time.
o Provide subs for daytime PD.
o Extend number of in-service days for instruction and time to play.
o Provide each teacher with three days off to practice new tech Web 2.0 stuff.
o Fun slogan on t-shirts.
o Give teachers time to become learnings – professional days, half days for faculty learning.
o Faculty canoe/camping trip.
o Yogic laughing circles.
o Encourage risk takers.
o Empower faculty.
o Teach teachers and students how to learn and pursue their passions at the same time.
o Electronic portfolios of teacher PD – goals, accomplishments, etc.
o Practice something all summer.
o Keep learning myself.
o Read Parker Palmer.
o Read something relevant for our summer reading.
o Differentiated professional development (focus on your own interests/integrate goals).
o Customize PD to generate more buy-in.
Lesson Planning / Curriculum – 53 dots
o Create an assessment machine to plug into a student’s brain to figure out what they actually know.
o Plant a seed – suggest one small tech change to an existing lesson.
o A six-week span of no grades, no assessments, just Web 2.0 tools.
o Administration and curriculum developers need to use Web 2.0 technologies.
o All faculty must present one new idea and how to teach it using tech: Everyone has a deadline; all get time in spotlight and applause for effort and learn at the same time.
o When embedding tools in curriculum start small.
o Self-assessment student and faculty – Don’t be afraid to redesign.
o Brings all parts of the child’s learning years together.
o Mix up grades in projects.
o Teams of teachers working collaboratively will make it easier/faster to implement change.
o Forget textbooks.
o Day-a-month class without walls or time.
o Work on implementing discussion in classroom with collaboration and communication on computer.
o Individuals can share what’s working and great ideas with one another.
o Work together more-less “subject walls.”
o Teachers can each take one tool and design a unit together.
o Allow for open-ended (flexible) curriculum – content as framework rather than specifics.
o Come to a consensus on curriculum – curriculum mapping may help.
o Initiate curricular revision process with 21st century skills as integral.
o Make part of curriculum.
o What can individuals do? Take a chance. Let the students teach us.
o Increased collaboration in lesson/unit planning and then sneak in a cool tool.
o Add students to curriculum committee.
o Open curriculum.
o Groups to develop projects to implement into curriculum.
o Collaboration across curriculum and subject areas.
Culture – 53 dots
o Buy a flip.
o Have a ping-pong tournament.
o Bowling.
o Devote one hour a day to play.
o Have fun.
o Make a movie.
o Make art.
o Take a trip to a children’s museum.
o Create Ning for your extended family.
o Play kickball with your colleagues.
o School website: Put links to wiki, podcast, blogs, etc. that others in school use so the reluctant ones can try it at their own comfort level and pace. They can see an example and know the person who uses it.
o Have a cooking class of teachers and students.
o Accountability.
o Highlight best practices – teachers teaching teachers.
o Give praise – both public and private.
o Build trust to encourage risk-taking.
o Create a culture that embraces “learning first, teaching second.”
o No grades – just learning.
o Create a non-graded school (no A, B, C, D, F)
o Don’t always grade them – learn for fun!
o Assess learning not facts.
o Re-brand the school – from rigorous academies to learning community.
o Encourage grass roots learning by actively celebrating faculty achievements.
o Each department blogs or f2f about changes coming (and already here) in education.
o Shifts in pedagogy – encouraged.
o Rely on faculty to be education experts – don’t not do something just because it may ruffle feathers or raise eyebrows.
o Regular dose of inspiration once a month. Inspiring speakers inspire teachers. Inspiring teachers inspire students.
o Include technology use assessment mindset in hiring practice.
o Encourage students to teach themselves more.
o Create trust to ask colleagues or students for help.
o Create opportunities for faculty to share, learning from, mentor each other. Doesn’t have two and long time slots, short times work too.
o Share – the goods and the oops.
o Celebrate the good.
o Discussions/information on cultural changes in education.
o Have college professors in our classrooms regularly.
o Creating a new mission statement – lifting up what matters most and then create a list of things we are going to stop doing.
o Have a parent workshop on Facebook.
o Set one goal with each teacher to use one tool 1 by first year.
o Let kids be teacher for a day.
o Discussions around “mind set” as part of the mission of our work.
Motivation – 39 dots
o Showing examples of success to teachers/administrators/parents.
o More critical dialogue about the tools.
o Snacks.
o Tupperware party for tech [Avon].
o Pedicures and massages.
o I’d like to wear a tiara while I say it.
o Keep moving.
o Lie, cheat, steal.
o Have accountability/assessment without feeling judged.
o Part of self-eval.
o Set specific goals for faculty learning and use of tools.
o To adapt more to teacher that have projects vs. teachers that come to lab for free time.
o Sparking the “teachers” – Web 2.0 is exciting.
o Faculty to blog a passion or follow passion technologically.
o Provide the enthusiasm needed to get the “spark” within faculty.
o School-to-school communication links faster to find.
o Make salary dependent on use of 21st century tools and methods.
o Incentive programs for progress by teachers.
o Reward teachers who use tech tools with new equipment!
o Parent meetings, money budgeted for technology each year.
o Incentives for engagement featuring “faculty learner of the week” on Web site. What I learned this week and how it’s changing my practice.
o All school, tech play day.
o Small group workshops – not sage on stage stud – no 1 and done.
o Faculty technology fair.
o Use team method of teaching to enhance lessons.
o Show and give examples of what works.
o Students not “into” using technology – students allow time to teach teachers about technology.
o Enhance learning opportunities and shared success stories.
Resources – 37 dots
o Smartboards in every room. Tons of software to support it – big books, etc.
o To overcome equipment issues: Tinker bell/computer fairy will deliver all necessary equipment to the school. Computer benefactor?
o Technology access – networked laptops for every student and staff in the school.
o All teachers get laptop, projector and unlimited, unblocked Internet access.
o Give each teacher a laptop.
o Start a laptop program.
o Buy more computers.
o 1-to-1 laptop program for MS.
o More computers in every classroom.
o Updating equipment.
o Laptop for each student/Smartboard in each classroom.
o (Kids) Bring your own laptops to compensate for lack of infrastructure (labs).
o Provide each classroom with five computers.
o Software/hardware tech person as resource.
o Technical support.
o Give all students laptops.
o Flip cameras and iPods or recording devices available to every teacher.
o 1-to-1 laptops.
o 21st Century Classroom – Technology integrated into the room.
o One laptop per student (per class) available.
o Infrastructure networking.
o Buy more bandwidth.
o Have support personnel available to help problem solve.
o Put resources where they will be used. Move motivated teachers to rooms with technology.
o Software for communicating in math equations.
o 1-to-1 laptops.
o Lack of access – let kids bring their own laptops? Create a fund for those that don’t have one?
o Laptops for fifth graders.
o A “library” of beginner digital presentations around various applications that teachers can access and watch.
o Individuals can begin with one technology to explore.
o Weekly tech tips.
o “Library” of practical applications – OXS in social studies, math, art etc. – practical, put it in place now, create a lesson plan.
o Maintenance.
o Expand bandwidth.
Professional/Faculty Resistance – 37 dots
o Let’s make a deal random idea implementation.
o Show teachers examples of success with other classes.
o Dedicate time to learning one new thing a semester/year.
o Asking teachers to take one of their favorite projects and redesign it using at least one new technology.
o Practice a new skill, practice a new skill, practice a new skill.
o Open conversations about trust, time…honor the reasons for resistance.
o Get teachers on board on our NING page by having a recipe swap.
o Finding encouraging alternative ways to compensate faculty for their tech times. Rewards? Bribes? $$$ - removal of duties, etc.
o Make incentives for attending tech meetings.
o Assign a willing mentor to one or two teachers – someone with whom there is already a rapport/trust so that teachers will feel comfortable.
o Tech savvy administrators leading the way.
o Faculty members should incorporate a 21st century skill into their professional learning plan.
o Implement accountability for usage of tech in classroom.
Money – 35 dots
o Write a grant.
o Grants.
o Each person raise equivalent money for 1 laptop.
o Find an angel to fund all needs – laptops, wireless, smart boards.
o $
o Merit pay based on In Cal Con.
o Grants, Parents Auction (fund raising), use evaluation (who is really using the computers effectively!).
o Have another technology fundraiser or use corporate support.
o Can ADVIS get a “large group grant” to technology hardware $$.
o Put in for grant money. Ask each teacher to research and write one per year.
o Tech Budget HUGE!
o Possible fundraising for technology (smart boards) for the classrooms. Laptop cart.
o Unlimited funds for resources (from computers to members of certain Web programs).
o Fundraising.
o Find money (funding).
o $1 million.
o Require anyone making over $1 million/year to give $10,000 to schools for technology.
o Under-resourced schools can apply for grants.
o Find way to direct-connect to money – have money that no one can spend.
o Sponsorship? Sell our souls? Maybe Pepsi, Dunkin Donuts…
o Compensate faculty – not necessarily money.
o Money.
o ADVIS gets deal with Dell/Apple for cohort of schools.
o Buy a subscription to Elluminate.
o Individuals? Try new tools, spread the word, look for grants, increase excitement with students.
o Laptops for all.
o Money for summer training and time.
o Every child and teacher given personal laptop.
o More funding – Teachers are rewarded for good teaching/learning.
o Win the lottery to afford more equipment.
o Search for, find and apply for grants.
Collective Vision – 31 dots
o School should spend an entire year making this a priority – resources, funds, staffing, planning.
o As to “the Plan,” create a discussion group where interested individuals from the community meet on a weekly basis to both form an agenda and discuss the new “philosophy” of teaching technology.
o Published technology vision “Commercial” to sell it.
o Send cool links to trustees.
o Demonstrate what students have done with technology at assemblies so other students will ask their teachers if they can do similar projects.
o Rip up all existing school mission statements. Re-write them. Post on Google Docs. Teacher generated.
o Collaborative teams within the school.
o Student tech team to add to tech support.
o Once tech implemented – develop department teams who can collaborate on curricular requirements.
o PLP worked wonders – model, duplicate.
o Teacher-partner.
Parents – 30 dots
o Parent tech night once a month.
o Start a reading group for parents – steer toward this topic.
o Parent education required forum.
o Host a parent program – even an ongoing program.
o Parent workshops (show how and why we used these tools).
o Informing parents of tech and uses.
o Education. Weekend tech fun for parents, teachers and kids. Come in and “play” with new Web 2.0 tools.
o Have parent/student/teacher workshops on Web 2.0 tools.
o Have “tech night” to showcase uses/outcomes to get parents on board.
o Educate parents.
o Assign as homework having parents involved in your Web 2.0 assignment.
o Parent night.
o Parent education/activation night.
o Presenting teaching strategies to parents.
o Parents teaching parents (to remove parent fear/misunderstanding).
o Parent workshops.
o Parent workshops.
o Parent-partner.
o Parent training.
o Show parents and teachers examples of tech tools at work.
o Invite parents to tech trainings – make them feel like a part of the process.
o Sharing student work with parents to fill voids between graded assignments.
Administration – 30 dots
o Build in regular PD time into the school day.
o Get administrators on board and involved.
o Find a way to have admins use a Web 2.0 tool for some admin purpose.
o Have a tech retreat for administration only.
o Administration needs to support and drive the shift – “put your money where your heart is!”
o Strong administrative support to let us “run with it.”
o Cut down on meetings by using Web 2.0.
o Flexibility in curriculum
o Requirements of 1 collaborative/Web 2.0 project/effort per year to get teachers over the hump.
o Ask individuals to attempt rather than resist.
o Working now – Administration vision and support – student excitability.
o Have administrators take other stuff off the plate.
o Change bell schedule.
o Clearly defined expectations from admin for tech implementation.
o PLP training for school heads.
o Engaging admin to empower teachers.
o Overthrow our administration.
o Create Google Reader with administrator.
o PLP for heads.
o Have administrators be proactive supporters – outline implementation plans for changing the culture AND plans for moving all faculty forward.
o Today helped put administrators on board, so it may be easier to keep going.
o Model use of tools at admin level.
o New upper school head participates in PLP group at Haverford next year.
Personnel – 20 dots
o If I were the Empress: I would have a FULL TIME person dedicated to helping teachers and students with tools.
o If I were in charge…swap.
o A computer coach for each classroom for wrap-around teacher support.
o Full time tech support in addition to Tech. Prof. Development Director.
o Provide personal to help teachers with classroom technology.
o All school professional development framework – position.
o Mentoring system. More academic tech support.
o Delegate responsibility of downloading software to teachers
o How long do we wait? How much more time do we give for people to get on the bus?
o Hire a technology teacher – integrate technology with curriculum.
o More than one tech teacher. 1 for PreK-2, 1 for 3-5, 1 for 6-8.
o Have an available support person.
o Use tech director to work in collaboration with teachers.
o Assistant available at any time to help with integrating tech in the classroom.
o Hiring a Technology Director.
o Change the schedule – no set computer “class” – “Tech Teacher” teach the teachers.
o What activities can we put in place to overcome the barriers mentioned? Parental involvement. Teacher collaboration.
o Get another job.
Physical – 14 dots
o Laptops for every teacher and student.
o Have wireless Internet and laptops for all students.
o All students and teachers would be assigned a laptop – responsible for it – required to use it.
o SmartBoards in every classroom.
o Smartboards in all the classrooms.
o Change physical barriers in “traditional” classroom to encourage more collaborative learning.
o Classrooms physically grouped around a common technology lab.
o Accessibility – Find ways to collaborate with others; Make an effort to plan ahead with this in mind.
o Rebuild classrooms.
o Create shared resource spaces rather than assigned spaces.
o Get more computers in my room.
o More computers
o Every student and teacher must be able to connect in each and every class.
Community – 12 dots
o Be positive.
o Make friends.
o Making a school-wide video highlighting all the technologies being used.
o Brag about what your kids are doing.
o Publish your students’ work in school.
o Start a collaborative professional bulletin board/wiki to share 21st century ideas and Websites.
o Make NING a fun thing to participate in – increased participation.
o What’s working now – talking about it.
o Each technophobic faculty member is paired with a techno-savvy mentor for the year.
Peer to Peer – 10 dots
o Student demonstrating movies.
o Different choices (web 2.0!) for student assignments.
o More time to meet with faculty members (hand holding).
o Barrier: support. Mentor program within staff.
o Provide examples of making the transformation from what is working well without technology to instruction that works well with technology.
o Identify useful texts and web sources and place them in a prominent place for staff to share.
o Film festival of tools being used.
o Progressive dinner with tech insights.
o Tech play day.
o Teachers encouraging teachers – working together.
o Talk up the positive student outcomes – be cheerleader.
o T-shirts with tech tips.
o Fun activity for faculty building – eliminate “egoism.”
o Sharing informally with peers.
o Share a lot – what works, what doesn’t.
o Collaboration time.
o Show the faculty how much the world can be brought to the classroom to enhance the lesson – Google Earth for geography.
o Greater immersion so faculty understand what these are.
o Learn how to share.
o Working one-on-one with resistant teachers to show ways in which tech can be easily and effectively used for existing lessons.
o What’s working – Peer-to-peer connections in a department with teachers not technology people.
o Trust of all the faculty to explore with me.
o Create learning communities (mandatory?) among our school’s faculty.
o What is working? Teachers sharing their experiences.
Attitude – 9 dots
o Kids as teachers.
o Hold hands and help each other.
o Ask the kids
o Positive attitude.
o Your students aren’t retiring __ years!
o Students speak about their experience.
o Kids see one class doing “it” and push their teacher to do new stuff.
o A source of human
o What’s working now? Student excitement, eagerness to try new things (some).
Capacity Building – 5 dots
o More collaborative (teacher) projects. Time to do partnership.
o School-wide immersion in Google Docs for in-service resources.
o Use Web 2.0 tools for practical administrative uses to get people used to Web 2.0.
o Time set aside weekly for faculty to teach each other.
o Have a “students teach teachers” day where the kids share their favorite tools.
o Summer teacher institutes.
Prioritizing – 3 dots
o Make technology goal part of faculty evaluation.
o Institute expectation in handbook/prof. growth plans that every teacher implement one tool per year.
o Goal-setting – But freedom of only accomplishing one to two goals per year.
Fears – 2 dots
o Make a commitment to spending a certain amount of time “playing on the computer.”
o Uncomfortable leaving strengths – make commitment to using one time – a new tool.
o Rather than hiding fear – work on sharing and being transparent when I don’t know something.
o Create, model a community of risk-taking, reward entrepreneurism ideas.
o Meeting teachers where they are – let them self-rate and then identify tech tools they’d like to learn.
o “Fear of tech.” Team “scared” faculty members with “brave” faculty – select a goal and a time frame to “conquer” a goal.
o Go for it even if fail!
o Demonstrate failure and non-perfect outcomes.
Control – 1 dot
o Creativity month
o Kid modeling Web 2.0 tools to teachers.
o Student testimonials about how they feel a particular technology has benefited him/her as a learner.
o Let go of control issues – It’s okay not to know how to do something.
o Win the lottery.
Time – 107 dots
o Revamp the schedule for more PD.o Eliminate one duty a month.
o Send the kids home early one day each week and give us the time to try, collaborate.
o To overcome time barrier: Once a month 1.5 hour period during day where tech training can occur.
o Change the length of the class period.
o Reverse school schedule to include time for all faculty and students.
o Schedule – change it!
o Complete overhaul of scheduling.
o New schedule planning.
o Block scheduling.
o Longer class time/periods.
o Reconsider schedule so school day is learning time for all!
o Shift in the structure of school – yearlong?
o Time – change the schedule so there is more time for teacher collaboration/experimentation.
o A monthly, all-school professional learning time during the school day.
o More planning time scheduled during week for Web 2.0.
o Drop number of units in curriculum to allow for enhanced (digital) learning time.
o Revise schedule to allow time for developing new lessons.
o Four days teaching, one day learning.
o After school “clubs” for student technology.
o Build in time within school day to collaborate.
o Make time for education and planning (in the school day).
o Planning periods for teacher groups.
o Instead of formal in-service presentations. Give faculty time to explore the ways to use tools in classrooms.
o Overcoming issue of time – administrators allow time for professional development.
o Built in planning/collaborative time for projects.
o Give teachers time to play.
o Help teachers keep balance.
o Having the time to create faculty collaboration during the day.
o Build in time for teachers to learn: change schedule, add a period.
o Teacher freedom. Networked transportation.
o One school had talked about built-in planning time during the week to plan – integrated units.
o Give teachers time during the school day to work on tech tools.
o Extra math class time.
o More prep time devoted to learning and playing in tools.
o Schedule meeting/planning/teacher-learning time into each week.
o Time to play with the Web 2.0 is a major issue. Give the teachers “recess” so they can “play.” Computer lab is the playground. PLP members on “recess duty.” Admin takes over actual lunch and recess duty during this time.
o Expand teachers’ idea of work hours (it’s more than just 8:30-3)
o Need to take things off people’s plates that are outdated.
o Online conferences.
o Provide teacher collaboration time on a regular basis.
o Paid planning time regularly scheduled to support importance of these ideas.
o Teach “virtually” so teachers could be in two places at one time.
o Individuals can pick a person to share tool idea with.
o More Ning less e-mail – use Web 2.0 tools to cut down on meetings – voice thread, Ning, wikis.
o Online faculty meetings.
o Ask faculty/partners to work together to find mutually beneficial time to work toward a goal.
o Find a topic you would like to make more interactive and go out and explore technology – make technology work for you.
o School communication guidelines for parents and faculty with the goal of limiting email traffic.
o Blend PLP goals and tools and understanding into the other agendas of the school.
o One half-day a month for class, other half for PD.
o Half day every month for professional development school wide.
o Shorten the school day.
o A half-day at the Apple store.
o Extend the school day until 3:50 p.m. to add necessary time for classroom instruction/collaboration.
o Extend school day.
o Say that teachers stay one hour after school twice a week to help each other learn and plan Web 2.0 lessons.
o Add two more half-day in-services for tech training.
o Extend school year without changing curriculum requirements to allow time for faculty to explore topics with technology.
o Have a summer retreat for teachers to teach tools and play with technology.
o Start small – baby steps are better than standing still.
o Provide in-service time over the summer.
o Build a particle accelerator and zap myself so I become Dr. Manhattan and can be everywhere at once.
o Add the 25th hour to the day – they said, “think Disney world.”
o 36-hour day.
o Have a two-week retreat where people actually did work to redesign curriculum.
o Showing that technology has a small time start-up cost, but inevitably saves time.
Professional Dev. – 72 dots
o To have staff that has a tool that they are comfortable using present to others rather than same people.o Those who are computer savvy can partner with those who are not to incorporate technology into existing lesson plans.
o Meet once a week with others to talk about learning.
o Scavenger hunt using tools.
o Mentor group.
o Showing faculty how to “replace” a curricular item.
o Create an online learning environment to share.
o Conduct a faculty technology fair.
o Video camera in room for day – then give teacher time to view it critically.
o Get teachers in each other’s classrooms more often.
o Technology retreats for faculty in luxurious destinations.
o Encourage PLP recruits to go to BLC ’09.
o Vacation with colleagues.
o Job swap.
o Faculty swap.
o Send faculty to far away places.
o Observations at other schools – learn from other teachers face to face – find out what works and what doesn’t – work around that mistake.
o Professional development.
o Take faculty to the challenge course.
o Required in-service/PD opportunities.
o Professional development workshops.
o Top priority for workshops and in-service.
o Ask teachers to suggest/design faculty development.
o Requiring teachers to go to content-specific workshops (upper school).
o Stipend faculty and presenters for a week of summer in-service for faculty/staff (not sure about including staff).
o Learning to draw using the right side of the brain as a faculty.
o Creativity workshops (that demonstrate teach tools, too – sneaking tech in!).
o Invest heavily in professional development. This doesn’t have to take new money – reallocate.
o Virtual field trips to see examples of elementary level use of tools.
o Summer workshops (paid).
o Professional development meeting time.
o Provide subs for daytime PD.
o Extend number of in-service days for instruction and time to play.
o Provide each teacher with three days off to practice new tech Web 2.0 stuff.
o Fun slogan on t-shirts.
o Give teachers time to become learnings – professional days, half days for faculty learning.
o Faculty canoe/camping trip.
o Yogic laughing circles.
o Encourage risk takers.
o Empower faculty.
o Teach teachers and students how to learn and pursue their passions at the same time.
o Electronic portfolios of teacher PD – goals, accomplishments, etc.
o Practice something all summer.
o Keep learning myself.
o Read Parker Palmer.
o Read something relevant for our summer reading.
o Differentiated professional development (focus on your own interests/integrate goals).
o Customize PD to generate more buy-in.
Lesson Planning / Curriculum – 53 dots
o Create an assessment machine to plug into a student’s brain to figure out what they actually know.o Plant a seed – suggest one small tech change to an existing lesson.
o A six-week span of no grades, no assessments, just Web 2.0 tools.
o Administration and curriculum developers need to use Web 2.0 technologies.
o All faculty must present one new idea and how to teach it using tech: Everyone has a deadline; all get time in spotlight and applause for effort and learn at the same time.
o When embedding tools in curriculum start small.
o Self-assessment student and faculty – Don’t be afraid to redesign.
o Brings all parts of the child’s learning years together.
o Mix up grades in projects.
o Teams of teachers working collaboratively will make it easier/faster to implement change.
o Forget textbooks.
o Day-a-month class without walls or time.
o Work on implementing discussion in classroom with collaboration and communication on computer.
o Individuals can share what’s working and great ideas with one another.
o Work together more-less “subject walls.”
o Teachers can each take one tool and design a unit together.
o Allow for open-ended (flexible) curriculum – content as framework rather than specifics.
o Come to a consensus on curriculum – curriculum mapping may help.
o Initiate curricular revision process with 21st century skills as integral.
o Make part of curriculum.
o What can individuals do? Take a chance. Let the students teach us.
o Increased collaboration in lesson/unit planning and then sneak in a cool tool.
o Add students to curriculum committee.
o Open curriculum.
o Groups to develop projects to implement into curriculum.
o Collaboration across curriculum and subject areas.
Culture – 53 dots
o Buy a flip.o Have a ping-pong tournament.
o Bowling.
o Devote one hour a day to play.
o Have fun.
o Make a movie.
o Make art.
o Take a trip to a children’s museum.
o Create Ning for your extended family.
o Play kickball with your colleagues.
o School website: Put links to wiki, podcast, blogs, etc. that others in school use so the reluctant ones can try it at their own comfort level and pace. They can see an example and know the person who uses it.
o Have a cooking class of teachers and students.
o Accountability.
o Highlight best practices – teachers teaching teachers.
o Give praise – both public and private.
o Build trust to encourage risk-taking.
o Create a culture that embraces “learning first, teaching second.”
o No grades – just learning.
o Create a non-graded school (no A, B, C, D, F)
o Don’t always grade them – learn for fun!
o Assess learning not facts.
o Re-brand the school – from rigorous academies to learning community.
o Encourage grass roots learning by actively celebrating faculty achievements.
o Each department blogs or f2f about changes coming (and already here) in education.
o Shifts in pedagogy – encouraged.
o Rely on faculty to be education experts – don’t not do something just because it may ruffle feathers or raise eyebrows.
o Regular dose of inspiration once a month. Inspiring speakers inspire teachers. Inspiring teachers inspire students.
o Include technology use assessment mindset in hiring practice.
o Encourage students to teach themselves more.
o Create trust to ask colleagues or students for help.
o Create opportunities for faculty to share, learning from, mentor each other. Doesn’t have two and long time slots, short times work too.
o Share – the goods and the oops.
o Celebrate the good.
o Discussions/information on cultural changes in education.
o Have college professors in our classrooms regularly.
o Creating a new mission statement – lifting up what matters most and then create a list of things we are going to stop doing.
o Have a parent workshop on Facebook.
o Set one goal with each teacher to use one tool 1 by first year.
o Let kids be teacher for a day.
o Discussions around “mind set” as part of the mission of our work.
Motivation – 39 dots
o Showing examples of success to teachers/administrators/parents.o More critical dialogue about the tools.
o Snacks.
o Tupperware party for tech [Avon].
o Pedicures and massages.
o I’d like to wear a tiara while I say it.
o Keep moving.
o Lie, cheat, steal.
o Have accountability/assessment without feeling judged.
o Part of self-eval.
o Set specific goals for faculty learning and use of tools.
o To adapt more to teacher that have projects vs. teachers that come to lab for free time.
o Sparking the “teachers” – Web 2.0 is exciting.
o Faculty to blog a passion or follow passion technologically.
o Provide the enthusiasm needed to get the “spark” within faculty.
o School-to-school communication links faster to find.
o Make salary dependent on use of 21st century tools and methods.
o Incentive programs for progress by teachers.
o Reward teachers who use tech tools with new equipment!
o Parent meetings, money budgeted for technology each year.
o Incentives for engagement featuring “faculty learner of the week” on Web site. What I learned this week and how it’s changing my practice.
o All school, tech play day.
o Small group workshops – not sage on stage stud – no 1 and done.
o Faculty technology fair.
o Use team method of teaching to enhance lessons.
o Show and give examples of what works.
o Students not “into” using technology – students allow time to teach teachers about technology.
o Enhance learning opportunities and shared success stories.
Resources – 37 dots
o Smartboards in every room. Tons of software to support it – big books, etc.o To overcome equipment issues: Tinker bell/computer fairy will deliver all necessary equipment to the school. Computer benefactor?
o Technology access – networked laptops for every student and staff in the school.
o All teachers get laptop, projector and unlimited, unblocked Internet access.
o Give each teacher a laptop.
o Start a laptop program.
o Buy more computers.
o 1-to-1 laptop program for MS.
o More computers in every classroom.
o Updating equipment.
o Laptop for each student/Smartboard in each classroom.
o (Kids) Bring your own laptops to compensate for lack of infrastructure (labs).
o Provide each classroom with five computers.
o Software/hardware tech person as resource.
o Technical support.
o Give all students laptops.
o Flip cameras and iPods or recording devices available to every teacher.
o 1-to-1 laptops.
o 21st Century Classroom – Technology integrated into the room.
o One laptop per student (per class) available.
o Infrastructure networking.
o Buy more bandwidth.
o Have support personnel available to help problem solve.
o Put resources where they will be used. Move motivated teachers to rooms with technology.
o Software for communicating in math equations.
o 1-to-1 laptops.
o Lack of access – let kids bring their own laptops? Create a fund for those that don’t have one?
o Laptops for fifth graders.
o A “library” of beginner digital presentations around various applications that teachers can access and watch.
o Individuals can begin with one technology to explore.
o Weekly tech tips.
o “Library” of practical applications – OXS in social studies, math, art etc. – practical, put it in place now, create a lesson plan.
o Maintenance.
o Expand bandwidth.
Professional/Faculty Resistance – 37 dots
o Let’s make a deal random idea implementation.o Show teachers examples of success with other classes.
o Dedicate time to learning one new thing a semester/year.
o Asking teachers to take one of their favorite projects and redesign it using at least one new technology.
o Practice a new skill, practice a new skill, practice a new skill.
o Open conversations about trust, time…honor the reasons for resistance.
o Get teachers on board on our NING page by having a recipe swap.
o Finding encouraging alternative ways to compensate faculty for their tech times. Rewards? Bribes? $$$ - removal of duties, etc.
o Make incentives for attending tech meetings.
o Assign a willing mentor to one or two teachers – someone with whom there is already a rapport/trust so that teachers will feel comfortable.
o Tech savvy administrators leading the way.
o Faculty members should incorporate a 21st century skill into their professional learning plan.
o Implement accountability for usage of tech in classroom.
Money – 35 dots
o Write a grant.o Grants.
o Each person raise equivalent money for 1 laptop.
o Find an angel to fund all needs – laptops, wireless, smart boards.
o $
o Merit pay based on In Cal Con.
o Grants, Parents Auction (fund raising), use evaluation (who is really using the computers effectively!).
o Have another technology fundraiser or use corporate support.
o Can ADVIS get a “large group grant” to technology hardware $$.
o Put in for grant money. Ask each teacher to research and write one per year.
o Tech Budget HUGE!
o Possible fundraising for technology (smart boards) for the classrooms. Laptop cart.
o Unlimited funds for resources (from computers to members of certain Web programs).
o Fundraising.
o Find money (funding).
o $1 million.
o Require anyone making over $1 million/year to give $10,000 to schools for technology.
o Under-resourced schools can apply for grants.
o Find way to direct-connect to money – have money that no one can spend.
o Sponsorship? Sell our souls? Maybe Pepsi, Dunkin Donuts…
o Compensate faculty – not necessarily money.
o Money.
o ADVIS gets deal with Dell/Apple for cohort of schools.
o Buy a subscription to Elluminate.
o Individuals? Try new tools, spread the word, look for grants, increase excitement with students.
o Laptops for all.
o Money for summer training and time.
o Every child and teacher given personal laptop.
o More funding – Teachers are rewarded for good teaching/learning.
o Win the lottery to afford more equipment.
o Search for, find and apply for grants.
Collective Vision – 31 dots
o School should spend an entire year making this a priority – resources, funds, staffing, planning.o As to “the Plan,” create a discussion group where interested individuals from the community meet on a weekly basis to both form an agenda and discuss the new “philosophy” of teaching technology.
o Published technology vision “Commercial” to sell it.
o Send cool links to trustees.
o Demonstrate what students have done with technology at assemblies so other students will ask their teachers if they can do similar projects.
o Rip up all existing school mission statements. Re-write them. Post on Google Docs. Teacher generated.
o Collaborative teams within the school.
o Student tech team to add to tech support.
o Once tech implemented – develop department teams who can collaborate on curricular requirements.
o PLP worked wonders – model, duplicate.
o Teacher-partner.
Parents – 30 dots
o Parent tech night once a month.o Start a reading group for parents – steer toward this topic.
o Parent education required forum.
o Host a parent program – even an ongoing program.
o Parent workshops (show how and why we used these tools).
o Informing parents of tech and uses.
o Education. Weekend tech fun for parents, teachers and kids. Come in and “play” with new Web 2.0 tools.
o Have parent/student/teacher workshops on Web 2.0 tools.
o Have “tech night” to showcase uses/outcomes to get parents on board.
o Educate parents.
o Assign as homework having parents involved in your Web 2.0 assignment.
o Parent night.
o Parent education/activation night.
o Presenting teaching strategies to parents.
o Parents teaching parents (to remove parent fear/misunderstanding).
o Parent workshops.
o Parent workshops.
o Parent-partner.
o Parent training.
o Show parents and teachers examples of tech tools at work.
o Invite parents to tech trainings – make them feel like a part of the process.
o Sharing student work with parents to fill voids between graded assignments.
Administration – 30 dots
o Build in regular PD time into the school day.o Get administrators on board and involved.
o Find a way to have admins use a Web 2.0 tool for some admin purpose.
o Have a tech retreat for administration only.
o Administration needs to support and drive the shift – “put your money where your heart is!”
o Strong administrative support to let us “run with it.”
o Cut down on meetings by using Web 2.0.
o Flexibility in curriculum
o Requirements of 1 collaborative/Web 2.0 project/effort per year to get teachers over the hump.
o Ask individuals to attempt rather than resist.
o Working now – Administration vision and support – student excitability.
o Have administrators take other stuff off the plate.
o Change bell schedule.
o Clearly defined expectations from admin for tech implementation.
o PLP training for school heads.
o Engaging admin to empower teachers.
o Overthrow our administration.
o Create Google Reader with administrator.
o PLP for heads.
o Have administrators be proactive supporters – outline implementation plans for changing the culture AND plans for moving all faculty forward.
o Today helped put administrators on board, so it may be easier to keep going.
o Model use of tools at admin level.
o New upper school head participates in PLP group at Haverford next year.
Personnel – 20 dots
o If I were the Empress: I would have a FULL TIME person dedicated to helping teachers and students with tools.o If I were in charge…swap.
o A computer coach for each classroom for wrap-around teacher support.
o Full time tech support in addition to Tech. Prof. Development Director.
o Provide personal to help teachers with classroom technology.
o All school professional development framework – position.
o Mentoring system. More academic tech support.
o Delegate responsibility of downloading software to teachers
o How long do we wait? How much more time do we give for people to get on the bus?
o Hire a technology teacher – integrate technology with curriculum.
o More than one tech teacher. 1 for PreK-2, 1 for 3-5, 1 for 6-8.
o Have an available support person.
o Use tech director to work in collaboration with teachers.
o Assistant available at any time to help with integrating tech in the classroom.
o Hiring a Technology Director.
o Change the schedule – no set computer “class” – “Tech Teacher” teach the teachers.
o What activities can we put in place to overcome the barriers mentioned? Parental involvement. Teacher collaboration.
o Get another job.
Physical – 14 dots
o Laptops for every teacher and student.o Have wireless Internet and laptops for all students.
o All students and teachers would be assigned a laptop – responsible for it – required to use it.
o SmartBoards in every classroom.
o Smartboards in all the classrooms.
o Change physical barriers in “traditional” classroom to encourage more collaborative learning.
o Classrooms physically grouped around a common technology lab.
o Accessibility – Find ways to collaborate with others; Make an effort to plan ahead with this in mind.
o Rebuild classrooms.
o Create shared resource spaces rather than assigned spaces.
o Get more computers in my room.
o More computers
o Every student and teacher must be able to connect in each and every class.
Community – 12 dots
o Be positive.o Make friends.
o Making a school-wide video highlighting all the technologies being used.
o Brag about what your kids are doing.
o Publish your students’ work in school.
o Start a collaborative professional bulletin board/wiki to share 21st century ideas and Websites.
o Make NING a fun thing to participate in – increased participation.
o What’s working now – talking about it.
o Each technophobic faculty member is paired with a techno-savvy mentor for the year.
Peer to Peer – 10 dots
o Student demonstrating movies.o Different choices (web 2.0!) for student assignments.
o More time to meet with faculty members (hand holding).
o Barrier: support. Mentor program within staff.
o Provide examples of making the transformation from what is working well without technology to instruction that works well with technology.
o Identify useful texts and web sources and place them in a prominent place for staff to share.
o Film festival of tools being used.
o Progressive dinner with tech insights.
o Tech play day.
o Teachers encouraging teachers – working together.
o Talk up the positive student outcomes – be cheerleader.
o T-shirts with tech tips.
o Fun activity for faculty building – eliminate “egoism.”
o Sharing informally with peers.
o Share a lot – what works, what doesn’t.
o Collaboration time.
o Show the faculty how much the world can be brought to the classroom to enhance the lesson – Google Earth for geography.
o Greater immersion so faculty understand what these are.
o Learn how to share.
o Working one-on-one with resistant teachers to show ways in which tech can be easily and effectively used for existing lessons.
o What’s working – Peer-to-peer connections in a department with teachers not technology people.
o Trust of all the faculty to explore with me.
o Create learning communities (mandatory?) among our school’s faculty.
o What is working? Teachers sharing their experiences.
Attitude – 9 dots
o Kids as teachers.o Hold hands and help each other.
o Ask the kids
o Positive attitude.
o Your students aren’t retiring __ years!
o Students speak about their experience.
o Kids see one class doing “it” and push their teacher to do new stuff.
o A source of human
o What’s working now? Student excitement, eagerness to try new things (some).
Capacity Building – 5 dots
o More collaborative (teacher) projects. Time to do partnership.o School-wide immersion in Google Docs for in-service resources.
o Use Web 2.0 tools for practical administrative uses to get people used to Web 2.0.
o Time set aside weekly for faculty to teach each other.
o Have a “students teach teachers” day where the kids share their favorite tools.
o Summer teacher institutes.
Prioritizing – 3 dots
o Make technology goal part of faculty evaluation.o Institute expectation in handbook/prof. growth plans that every teacher implement one tool per year.
o Goal-setting – But freedom of only accomplishing one to two goals per year.
Fears – 2 dots
o Make a commitment to spending a certain amount of time “playing on the computer.”o Uncomfortable leaving strengths – make commitment to using one time – a new tool.
o Rather than hiding fear – work on sharing and being transparent when I don’t know something.
o Create, model a community of risk-taking, reward entrepreneurism ideas.
o Meeting teachers where they are – let them self-rate and then identify tech tools they’d like to learn.
o “Fear of tech.” Team “scared” faculty members with “brave” faculty – select a goal and a time frame to “conquer” a goal.
o Go for it even if fail!
o Demonstrate failure and non-perfect outcomes.
Control – 1 dot
o Creativity montho Kid modeling Web 2.0 tools to teachers.
o Student testimonials about how they feel a particular technology has benefited him/her as a learner.
o Let go of control issues – It’s okay not to know how to do something.
o Win the lottery.